Undergraduate Program

Tim SmalleyUndergraduate Coordinator

Core Curriculum• Area A - Essential Skills - 9 hrs

– English Comp I and II, Precalculus• Area B - Institutional Options - 4 hrs• Area C - Humanities/Fine Arts - 6 hrs

– Intro to Public Speaking, Elective• Area D - Science - 12 hrs

– Biology or Botany I and II, Chemistry I• Area E - Social Sciences - 12 hrs

– American History and Government required– 2 Electives

Core curriculum - continued• Area F - Courses Related to Major - 17 hrs

• Microeconomics (Horticulture and Landscape)• Chemistry II• Hort Science• Hort Professionalism• Surveying (Landscape)• Physical Science and Organic Chemistry (Turf)• Electives (4,6,0)

New Courses since 1993• 2100 - Horticultural Professionalism• 3300 - Organic Gardening• 3440 - Herb, Spices and Medicinal Plants• 3450 - Residential Design• 3900 - Horticultural Study Tour• 3910 - Internship requirement• 4930, 4931 - Agriculture and Ecology in Tropical

America• 4990 - Environmental Issues In Horticulture

Classes in Approval Process

• HORT 3130 - Interior Plant identification• HORT 3460 - Residential Design II• HORT 4091 - Landscape Professional

Practices

New Curriculum- Junior/Senior• Horticultural Foundation - required

– Horticultural Physiology– Soils– Plant Propagation– Internship– Nutrition– Postharvest Physiology– Environmental Issues in Horticulture Discussion– One Elective (Genetics, Anatomy,Taxonomy,

Ecology, Weather and Climate)

New Curriculum - Jr/Sr - cont.• Commodities - 10 credit hours

– Introduction to Vegetables – Introduction to Fruit– Interior Identification– Herbaceous Perennials– Woody Identification and Use– Organic Gardening– Herbs, Spices, and Medicinals– Introductory Turf Management

New Curriculum - Jr/Sr - cont.

• Agribusiness/ Marketing - 3 credit hours– Agribusiness Marketing– Food and Fiber Marketing– Agribusiness Accounting– Intro to Agribusiness Management

New Curriculum - Jr/Sr - cont

• Production/Management - 12 credit hours– Interior Plant, Nursery, Greenhouse, Turf or

Landscape Management– Olericulture or Pomology– Residential Design I and II– Irrigation– Agriculture and Ecology of Tropical America– Plant and Garden Study Tour

New Curriculum - Jr/Sr - cont• Plant Protection - 6 credit hours

– Pesticide Management– Weeds– Ornamental or Turf Pest Management– Plant Pathology– Agricultural Entomology– Integrated Pest Management– Diagnosis and Control of Plant Diseases

New Curriculum - Hort - cont

• Free Electives - 5 credit hours• All electives but free electives are directed

electives requiring the approval of advisors

Assessment Techniques

• Test, lab reports, papers, computer projects, oral presentations

• Senior exit survey• Senior exit interview

Response to Assessments• Repair greenhouse• Obtain new design lab• New building initiative • Prompt changes in service class - less focus

on row crops• Spread advising load• Hire new landscape design professor

Recruiting

• UGA Entrance standards– GPA: 3.53 - 3.96 – SAT: 1160 - 1320– ACT: 25 - 29

• Hope Scholarship effect• College recruiter in Academic Affairs• Major Fair for undecided majors

Increasing Diversity

• UGA diversity requirement• Academic Affairs recruiter

– High school summer interns– Georgia Plant Science Scholars– 4-H summer camps - propagation class

• Spanish recommended• International Courses

Advising

• Armitage, Berle, Mills, Randle, Rieger, Smalley

• Appointments - students notified at orientation to contact advisor

• Open door policy

Internships

• 3 hrs required, 6 hrs allowed• Informal (journal plus paper)• Information during Hort Professionalism• Listed on web site and in departmental

office • Interviewing during Career Day

Scholarships

• Listed on web site and in departmental office • College-wide Scholarships• Departmental Scholarships

– Bartlett Foundation (2 x 1,000)– Albert Dirr– Horticulture Club (endowed)

• Top ten percent personally contacted

Hort Club• Required for Horticultural Professionalism• 2 plant sales, Valentine’s Day• Southeastern Flower Show• Service

– Landscape senior citizen homes– Teach elementary and project children

• Fall and spring trip• Attend SASHS and ASHS

Landscape Club

• Since 1998• Meetings

– Speakers– ALCA Student Career Days training

• Attend ALCA Student Career Days– Funded through industry solicitations

• Landscape Habitat for Humanity Homes

International Travel• Agriculture and Ecology in Tropical America

– Costa Rica - every year– Guatemala - in the past

• Plant and Garden Tour– England - 2001– England, Wales, Scotland - 2003

• Internships possible– Ireland (Birr Castle)– England (Hilliers)– New Zealand (cut flowers)

Career Planning and Placement

• UGA Career Center• Horticultural Professionalism

– Speakers, resumes, mock interviews• Annual Departmental Career Day

– 8 interviews before graduation in department• South Campus Career Day

Courses for non-majors• Horticultural Sciences• Interior Plant Identification• Interior Plant Management• Organic Gardening• Herbs, Spices, and Medicinal Plants• Horticultural Study Tour• Agricultural and Ecology in Tropical

America class and tour

Horticultural Minor• Choose one of the following

– Introduction to Vegetable Crops– Introduction to Fruit Crops– Organic Gardening– Herbs, Spices, and Medicinal Plants

Horticulture Minor - cont.

• Choose one of the following– Nursery Management– Greenhouse Management I– Greenhouse Management II– Landscape Horticulture

• Elective Courses (9 to 10 credit hours)• Total of 15 credit hours